Date of volunteer work: 10/14/2018. Site Name: Indian Creek Natural Area. Number of hours worked: 0.25. Field notes: I walked to Indian Creek Natural Area this morning with the intention of picking up trash. As I approached the Natural Area I observed a white van parked right at the start of the newly built trail. […]

Date of volunteer work: 10/04/2018. Site Name: Powell Butte Nature Park. Number of hours worked: 1.20. Field notes: I used the 148th entrance off Powell Blvd. Having not much time but feeling the urge to visit the park, I walked up the Elderberry trail to the top of the stairs, SW on the Holgate trail, […]

Date of volunteer work: 09/30/2018. Site Name: Erroll Heights. Number of hours worked: 2. Field notes: Great fall day. Beavers have adapted to low water in the west dam by raising water level in the next dam by 4 inches. Dam 3 also is being reinforced and deepened. Coyotes, racoons, deer appreciating the new dry […]

Date of volunteer work: 10/02/2018. Site Name: Brannen Property/Johnson Creek Park (west). Number of hours worked: 1.0. Field notes: A camp I reported a month or so ago at creekside is still there although I couldn’t tell if it was still occupied. At least a tent is still there and up. Another person was camping […]

Date of volunteer work: 09/28/2018. Site Name: Foster Floodplains. Number of hours worked: 1. Field notes: We entered from the parking lot. Flowering plants included Queen Anne’s Lace, Chicory, and a yellow knee-high flower which I did not recognize, but it thickly lined the cement path. As far as invasives, we saw Himalayan blackberry and […]